Off the Shelf is an interview format of the Pages of Play Podcast where we bring a guest on the show to talk about the following scenario: “Imagine you have a library full of books that represent to…

After a somewhat unplanned summer break, the Short Game crew is returning to talk about the fourth chapter of Deltarune!

The Steam Deck is the number one console(ish) platform for playing ILLEGAL GAMES that Nintendo doesn't want you to play! This week we're talking about games that STEAL intellectual property from the

Toby Fox is back, and it's TV TIME!Previously:Episode 320 - Chapter 1Episode 324 - Chapter 2Episode 65 - UndertaleEpisode 66 - Undertale Spoilers

From the depths of Steam and YouTube comes ENA, a strange polygonal girl in a surreal hypercapitalist dreamscape. Your hosts were left wondering what the hell this was all about, and why is it so inc

Indie game royalty Blendo aka Brendan Chung, creator of Thirty Flights of Loving and Quadrilateral Cowboy among others has come out of his cicada-like 7 year dev cycle with another instant classic. S

A video game memoir by Ecuadorian indie developers Julián Cordero and Sebastian Valbuena, and published by Panic, Despelote takes you back to a childhood in 2001 Ecuador, and the magical grip soccer

We’re talking about Many Nights a Whisper, a short, meditative archery (kinda!) game from Red Strings Club developer Deconstructeam and Selkie Harbour. The Dreamer has prepared their entire life fo

We spent this week playing a bit more of Inkle's follow up to Overboard!, and made some shocking discoveries!

This week, Laura and Nate dive into Trash the Planet, a free, browser-based resource-management game that subverts clicker mechanics to serve its narrative. You play as a group of raccoons who start

Shane and Nate were buzzing about FlyKnight, a $5 indie dungeon crawler that surprised us with its humor and depth. In this episode, we break down what makes this tiny first-person RPG so fun, from i

Expelled! is the latest game from all-star narrative design studio Inkle. It's a follow up to our 2021 Game of the Year winner Overboard!, and it builds on that game's strengths in every conceivable

Steam Next Fest just concluded and the Short Game team searched through the mountain of demos to discuss some of the most exciting games with short game energy coming out this year.00:02 Intro04

All four co-hosts are present and accounted for as we talk about ultra-short platformer, Sheepy: A Short Adventure. It's right there in the name!Sheepy is a FREE game on Steam and itch.io, and it

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Rats with Knives! It's time to finally talk about Fight'N Rage!This has been on the back burner for a while; it was first suggested to us nearly 4 years ago as a modern, mechanically interesting

This week we are welcoming long time friend of the show Jason McIntosh (aka Jmac, aka Halstrick) who's joining us to talk about the Valve Steam Deck. It's been about three years since the Steam Deck

This week we are welcoming long time friend of the show Jason McIntosh (aka Jmac, aka Halstrick) who's joining us to talk about the Valve Steam Deck. It's been about three years since the Steam Deck

How has it taken us ten years to get around to covering a Sokpop game? The venerable but very weird indie collective has put out a fascinating perfectly normal gardening game. Ahem

🎶️ I'M ON ANOTHER... ON ANOTHER LEVEL 🎶️This week we are talking about the retro-inspired, Ska-infused rally car racer Parking Garage Rally Circuit. Race through the most iconic parking

It's Game of the Year time again! This week we're looking back at 2024 to pick the best short video game of the year, and recognize some other great games as well.00:00 Intro04:52 Game of the Yea

A science fiction farming simulation game set in a small community at the base of a space elevator during the days and seasons leading up to your departure for the moon.

This Thanksgiving week the hosts gathered to play a bit of a game, trying to match short games to randomly chosen genres and adjectives. What's a David Lynchian Platformer, or an "I Want To Go To The

Press Y to NevaThere's a certain sector of our listenership that loves it when we talk about games that don't work for us. If that's you, then please enjoy our discussion of Neva, the latest

What a story. 1000xRESIST is one of the best works of science fiction we’ve seen in a game, and it opens new territory at the intersection of visual novels, adventure games, and interactive f…

What a story. 1000xRESIST is one of the best works of science fiction we’ve seen in a game, and it opens new territory at the intersection of visual novels, adventure games, and interactive f…

Debatably a short game, but indisputably a classic. Raygan has played SotN many times but the rest of the crew is experiencing it for the first time. What will they make of this revolutionary 1997 …